Flight number record
B6 1281
JetBlue Airways · Boston to Richmond
- Route
- BOS → RIC
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1281, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1281 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, B6 1281's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 308 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.64%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 323 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When B6 1281 flies
B6 1281 flies BOS to RIC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 96 of 323 flights, with 08:20 (39 flights) and 11:30 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0096 flights29.7%
- Departs 08:2039 flights12.1%
- Departs 11:3036 flights11.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 1281 runs 2 points worse at 87.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
B6 1281 next to BOS to RIC
Every carrier on BOS to RIC combined arrived on time 76.7% of the time across 1,691 flights, so B6 1281 is 10 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 757 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1281thin sample | 323 | 87.0% | 55 min | 4.64% | A− |
| All JetBlue Airways on BOS–RIC | 757 | 73.4% | 65 min | 3.96% | C− |
| All carriers on BOS–RIC | 1,691 | 76.7% | 63 min | 3.67% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 1281 quarter by quarter
B6 1281 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 73.2%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 65 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202582 flights73.2%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights85.3%
- Apr–Jun 202673 flights95.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights94.5%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, B6 1281 ranged from 81.2% on Sunday to 92.7% on Wednesday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1281 runs when it is late
B6 1281 often beats the schedule: 137 of 308 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 40 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early137 flights44.5%
- Within 15 min131 flights42.5%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.5%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 308 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 1281
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 January 2026, 2 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across January, November and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 January 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 November 2025 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why B6 1281 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,200 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,200 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 2,200 delay minutes reported on B6 1281.
Cancellations run at 4.64%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
Every one of the 323 flights under B6 1281 in the data flew BOS to RIC. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 323 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking B6 1281
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1281: 4.64% of its 323 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- BOS to RIC, every carrier and departure
- RIC to BOS, the return direction
- Republic Airways 5665 on the same route76.5%
- Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
- Every JetBlue Airways flight number with a record
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- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means JetBlue Airways’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.